Thursday, June 19, 2008

It's 1:30 in the morning and since I crashed out on my daughter's floor before and ended up sleeping there for a few hours I am now distressingly wide awake. Wide awake in the wee hours + no great ideas for a Thirteen = "What's On TV Right Now". If you were looking for pithy prose this definitely isn't the day - try again on Friday when the writing prompts start. In the meantime, you get drivel:1. Channel 3 (general entertainment) - Martha Stewart, about to be followed by Oprah2. Bip (comedy) - The Simple Life (oh god, this is that horrible Paris Hilton thing, isn't it?)3. Xtra Hot (more general entertainment) - Jack and Jill (just ending), followed by Arrested Development4. AXN Action Channel - The Sentinel5. (skipping the strictly Israeli channel since what's on won't mean anything to most of you - to those who care it's Yellow Asphalt with Moshe Ivgi)6. Channel 8 (documentaries) - American Shopper - "Documenting the introduction of "Aisling", a new supermarket sport that promotes self-expression through creative shopping". Huh?7. (skipping the Russian channel) Israeli Channel 10 - Ring & Win, a local game show8. Israeli Channel 1 - How Dares The Star - culture and music9. HOT Gold (movie channel) - The Prestige. Thriller. Rival magicians in turn of the century London battle each other for trade secrets. With Hugh Jackman.10. HOT Fun (movie channel) - Domestic Import. Comedy. The life of a couple is in turmoil, as the Ukrainian maid they hired is only interested in finding an American husband.11. HOT Action (movie channel) - The General's Daughter. Thriller. The daughter of a well-respected general is murdered and the investigation exposes dark secrets and corruption. With John Travolta.12. HOT Drama (movie channel) Il Tempo dell'Amore (in English). Drama, depicting 3 impossible love stories. 1 in the South African Boer War, 2 in Occupied France, 3 in current day Italy.13. Hallmark - Mary Bryant. Drama. Part 2: In 1788 Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay.We've got cable so the list could go on and on (and that's only the English and Hebrew language offerings, there are also a number of foreign language channels) but there's 13 of them for you.

Now I just need to avoid getting sucked into watching any of them and force myself to go to bed! Say goodnight Gracie. G'night Gracie. (Sheesh, I must be getting tired (I hope I'm getting tired!), I'm writing utter nonsense.)

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43 comments:

I went to Israel for on Senior Trip in 1986. We all tried to watch television at night because they would not let up roam the streets of Jerusalem by ourselves. It did not interest us much, because we did not understand the language.

Isn't it funny that everyone has cable these days and there still isn't anything to watch. I remember those late night baby feedings and not finding anything on the TV. It use to drive me crazy. LOL. Thanks for visiting my TT!

That's really sweet of you to offer Susan but I'm good for now. I'll be in the States myself in August so I'll be able to do some shopping then. These days you can get just about anything you might like here, it's just sometimes more expensive. Not like the old days when we'd bring over ridiculous things like peanut butter and shampoo.

You know, I love this kind of thing. I am as fascinated with how other people live as I am with people. Are the movies subtitled in Israeli (sorry that's an "I a stupid american" joke - Hebrew)? or are they dubbed in Hebrew?

All that "HOT" is interesting. The self-expression through creative shopping thing has me baffled. I don't have the budget to express much self, so I'll have to watch sometime and see how it's done! (Self-expression in the dollar store is the show I need!)

You stole my comment about all those channels and nothing to watch. I watch very little tv these days. I prefer blogs. Stories here are much more entertaining! Even stories written in the middle of the night about nothing to watch on tv. Actually, that would have made a good Seinfeld episode!

So I see you said you'll be in the states soon. It makes me wonder, are you from the states living out there? Or from out there and visiting here? Or some other scenario I haven't mentioned?

I'd probably watch the Hallmark movie - except it's part 2. I just got up from a nap at 9. So, I probably won't be getting to bed until later, too. I just needed a quick power nap, but it turned into an hour and a half.

Claudia - everything here is subtitled in Hebrew (not Israeli ;-)) except for things geared for young children who obviously wouldn't benefit from subtitles. Their programming is dubbed.

Sandy - "HOT" is the name of the cable company (as opposed to the satellite company which is "Yes"). The HOT channels are just their proprietary ones.

Robert - I'm both American and Israeli. I grew up in the States (suburban NY) and have lived in Israel for nearly 20 years now. My husband, kids and I all hold dual citizenship - two passports each. Makes international travel quite bulky LOL.

Wylie - that one did sound like the best of the bunch, but I didn't want to start watching anything that was just beginning at 1:30 in the morning.

Oh girl...I'm so sorry that your television in the wee hours of the morning is so bad. It's bad ALL the time here. Can you order dvds from Netflix? Do they have that in Israel? Nahh, it probably would take too long to send them. You might die of boredom before you got them.

It's so funny that a list of what was on TV 1:30 in the morning can be so interesting that I read every word, even though I basically know what is on tv in Israel. Thanks for an enthralling list of what was on TV last night. :-)

Oh, this is fun! I should try to remember to do one on German TV one of these days. We have one channel that we still haven't been able to figure out... I think it's a public access channel, but it's very odd.

Oh my! I hope you got to make up on your sleep! This reminded me of when my kids were little and they'd wake up sick at 2 am ...and how we'd bring them in to our bed and struggle to find something good for them to watch on t.v. but nope- not a hope. Luckily they're older now and they'll read quite happily instead. Thanks for the T13...I can sympathise!

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